Last update: April 20, 2008
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Artsopolis:
Search “Poetry & Literature”, “Theatre”, etc. at
http://artsopolis.com
Stanford University Events:
Search “Lectures, Readings, & Events” and “Conferences and Symposia”
at http://events.stanford.edu/today/
MetroActive:
Search Calendar Listings for “Literary Events” in drop-down menu
at http://calendar.metroactive.com/gyrobase/Events?EventCategory=&RegionCity=oid%3A5945&StartDate=All
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ONGOING EVENTS, EXTENDED ENGAGEMENTS, AND SERIES
(Scroll halfway down this post for calendar of individual, one-time-only literary events.)
South Bay California Writers' Club - A monthly reading of published or in-progress pieces by members and friends of the writing group. Visit www.southbaywriters.com for details. Second Friday of every month, 7:30pm. Free, 408.241.9100. Borders Books, 356 Santana Row, Suite 1030, San Jose (South Bay/Silicon Valley), 408.241.9100.
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Fierce Words Tender - Women's open mic for music, storytelling, spoken word and more. Second Saturday of every month, 6:30-8pm. Free. SisterSpirit Bookstore, 938 the Alameda, San Jose (South Bay/Silicon Valley), 408.293.9372.
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San Jose Poetry Slam - All are welcome to participate. Sign-ups begin at 7pm. Second Tuesday of every month, 8pm. $6. Britannia Arms San Jose, 173 W. Santa Clara St, San Jose (South Bay/Silicon Valley), 408.278.1400.
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*** Kepler's Books Author Events ***
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park CA, 94025
(650) 324-4321
For Kepler’s calendar, go to http://www.keplers.com/
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UPCOMING AUTHOR EVENTS
M Is for Mystery Bookstore
86 East Third Avenue
San Mateo, CA 94401
www.MforMystery.com
Phone: 650-401-8077
Toll free outside the Bay Area: 888-405-8077
All events are free and open to the public.
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*** Stanford Creative Writing Program Events Calendar ***
http://www.stanford.edu/group/creativewriting/
Wednesday, May 7, 8:00 p.m.
Campbell Recital Hall
Robert Bly reading
Mohr Visiting Poet
As a poet, editor, and translator, Bly has had a profound impact on the shape of American poetry.... He is the author of more than thirty books of poetry.... Bly is also the author of a number of nonfiction books.... Bly's honors include Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships.
More information:http://www.robertbly.com/
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Jack Matsuoka's Cartoons: Making the Best of Poston
Japanese American Museum San Jose (JAMsj)
Ongoing
Jack Matsuoka's Cartoons: Making the Best of Poston. At the outbreak of World War II, Jack and his family were uprooted from their home in Watsonville, California, and incarcerated at Poston, Arizona from 1942 to 1945. Just a teenager at the time, Jack documented Japanese American incarcerees making the best of a woeful situation through his often humorous and always insightful cartoons. A companion project, Like Jack: Making the Best of It, links Jack's experiences 60 years ago with those of BGCSV youth today. Inspired by Jack, they told their own stories of challenges and coping strategies through art and words. Their refreshingly candid work is also on display as a temporary exhibit at JAMsj. This collaborative project was funded by the California Story Fund of California Council for the Humanities.
• TICKET INFO
• Tickets: Free
• DATES & TIMES
• Dates:
November 1, 2004 - Ongoing
• Times:
Tues-Friday 11am-3pm
Sun: 11am-2pm
Special times by appointment.
• VENUE INFO
• Japanese American Museum of San Jose (JAMsj)
• 535 North 5th Street San Jose, CA 95112
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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED)
April 10 -May 3, 2008
Bus Barn Stage Company
97 Hillview Ave.
Los Altos
www.busbarn.org
650 941-0551
Sixteen comedies, eleven tragedies, seven histories and assorted sonnets and poems make up this whirlwind Shakespeare-arama, performed by three frenzied actors in tights ( with the help of audience members) in under 2 hours! This outrageous night of comedy includes Titus Andronicus performed as a cooking show, Othello done as rap, and Hamlet performed backwards, forwards, and sideways, plus lots more. This wildly raucous romp will leave you helpless with laughter. Don’t miss it!
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*** The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde ***
May 10 - Jun. 8, 2008
By Jeffrey Hatcher
World Premiere
Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson
San Jose Repertory Theatre
101 Paseo de San Antonio
San Jose, CA 95113-2603
http://www.sjrep.com/
Hatcher’s provocative adaptation of this timeless classic will mesmerize you and question your ability to fully know others.
What happened the night that Henry Jekyll died? Against the backdrop of Victorian London, the respected Dr. Jekyll has begun to display alarmingly erratic behavior. At the same time, a brutal figure haunts the city’s streets, committing assault and murder under the cloak of darkness and dismal London fog. Dr. Jekyll’s friends confront the monstrous Mr. Hyde in an attempt to unlock the puzzles of this tortured soul. Is it possible that only Hyde’s beautiful mistress holds the key? Nationally renowned playwright Jeffrey Hatcher brings Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of inner demons and evil unchecked to the Rep’s stage in a theatrically intense, contemporary and fiendishly clever production.
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•••••••••INDIVIDUAL, ONE-TIME-ONLY EVENTS•••••••
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Meet Author and Illustrator YUYI MORALES
San Mateo County Library
April 30, 2008
Meet author and illustrator Yuyi Morales in honor of Dia de los Libros, Dia de los Ninos. Born and raised in Veracruz, Mexico, Yuyi Morales is an artist, author, puppet maker, Brazilian folkdancer, and former host of a Spanish-language storytelling radio show. She is the author and illustrator of Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book (Chronicle, 2003), winner of the 2004 Pura Belpre Award, the Americas Award, Tomas Rivera Award, and the California Book award among others. She is the illustrator of Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull (Harcourt, 2003), hailed as one of the best books of the year by Child Magazine, School Library Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Book Links magazine.
• TICKET INFO
• Tickets: Free
• Info Phone: 650-328-2422
• DATES & TIMES
• Dates: April 30, 2008
• Times: 4pm
• VENUE INFO
• Atherton Public Library
• 2 Dinkespiel Station Lane Atherton, CA 94027
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V.V. GANESHANANTHAN
Love Marriage
Wednesday April 30, 2008 7:30 p.m.
Sri Lanka, a paradisiacal gem on the Indian Ocean, has been plagued by over 25 years of bloody warfare between minority Tamil separatists and the majority Sinhalese government, and was ravaged by the 2004 tsunami. Yet Sri Lanka garners little attention on the international stage, despite the fascinating complexities of its population—Tamils, Muslims, Burghers, and Sinhalese all intermingled on this tropical island—and its struggles with human rights violations by both militant groups and the government.
One of the first-ever novels to deal with Sri Lanka and its ongoing war, V.V. Ganeshananthan’s LOVE MARRIAGE examines decades of families suffering from this war and displacement. At the novel’s core, a young Sri Lankan-American woman feels trapped between Arranged Marriages and Love Marriages, between passions and ethnic allegiances, between the judgments of her ancestors and the modern world in which she lives.
LOVE MARRIAGE is V.V. Ganeshananthan’s first novel, but she is already an accomplished and credentialed writer: she studied at Harvard with Jamaica Kincaid, and at Iowa with Frank Conroy, Ethan Canin and Elizabeth McCracken; her journalism has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, and American Prospect. In this fiction debut, Ganeshananthan uses lyrical vignettes to knit together generations of marriages, and to meditate on universal themes of family, love, duty, and honor. Ganeshananthan's rich and sparkling prose bring this distant foreign conflict to life and shows its ramifications in other times and places.
Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park CA, 94025
(650) 324-4321
Free
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FIROOZAH DUMAS
Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad
Monday May 05, 2008 7:30 p.m.
The beloved author of Funny in Farsi returns with a warm and humorous autobiographical story about being a citizen of the world in her American, Iranian, Parisian family.
Whether describing her Iranian family’s wonder at her French husband’s Christmas traditions, comparing questionable delicacies in international cuisines, conveying the experience of taking 51 Iranian family members on a birthday cruise to Alaska, or going on a road trip to Iowa with a former American hostage in Iran, Firoozeh Dumas’s wit, warmth, and insight illuminate the universality of the human condition, and show how our differences can become our bonds.
Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park CA, 94025
(650) 324-4321
Free
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SIMON WINCHESTER
The Man Who Loved China: Joseph Needham and the Making of a Masterpiece
Monday May 12, 2008 7:30 p.m. Free
The New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa returns with the remarkable story of the growth of a great nation and the eccentric and adventurous scientist who defined its essence for the world. A writer and adventurer for more than 30 years, Winchester’s articles have appeared in such publications as the National Geographic and Condé Nast Traveler and more than a dozen books on travel and history.
Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park CA, 94025
(650) 324-4321
Free
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Mysterious California - Author Panel with Laurie R. King, Kirk Russell, and Nadia Gordon
City of Burlingame
May 13, 2008
Come join the Burlingame Public Library for an author panel on Mysterious California. The four mysteries chosen for this program represent a cross-section of crime fiction spawned by California’s locales. The writers and novels in the new program cover a large terrain geographically, historically, and culturally: Southland by Nina Revoyr, Shell Games by Kirk Russell, Sharpshooter by Nadia Gordon, and The Art of Detection by Laurie R. King.
In Southland, Nina Revoyr brings us a compelling story of race, love, murder, and history against the backdrop of Los Angeles. A young Japanese-American law student, Jackie Ishida, discovers that four black teenagers were killed in her grandfather’s store during the Watts Riots of 1965, and that the murders were never solved or reported. In the process of piecing together the story of the boys’ deaths, Jackie unearths secrets of her family’s history. In the process of learning the truth about the crime, readers experience the satisfaction, and shock, of learning unknown stories about California’s past and the invisible influence the past plays on the present.
In Laurie R. King’s The Art of Detection, San Francisco homicide detective Kate Martinelli is drawn into the surreal world of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts, when one is murdered and it appears that an unpublished Holmes manuscript may be at the root of the crime. The novel's perspective shifts back and forth between Kate investigating the present-day crime and the unnamed narrator of the manuscript relating a tale of forbidden love and violent death. The novel beautifully evokes San Francisco in the early 20th century and in the modern day, in all its unpredictable, colorful variety.
Shell Games, the first of Kirk Russell's John Marquez novels, takes place along the northern California coast and features a unique sleuth: an ex-DEA agent who now heads a special investigative unit of the California Department of Fish and Game. As Marquez stalks the culprits in a multimillion-dollar abalone poaching ring, he runs up against an old nemesis from his DEA days.
Nadia Gordon takes us into the heart of food and wine culture in her Sunny McCoskey Napa Valley Mysteries. When the heir apparent to a major vineyard is shot dead in Sharpshooter, Sunny’s eccentric wine maker friend Wade is arrested for the murder. Sunny sets out to prove his innocence. Her investigation takes her into the tangled politics and personalities of the wine industry, and to the threat posed to the valley by an insect, the glassy-winged sharpshooter.
• TICKET INFO
• Tickets: Free
• Info Phone: 650-558-7444
• DATES & TIMES
• Dates: May 13, 2008
• Times: 7pm
• VENUE INFO
• Burlingame Public Library
• 480 Primrose Road Burlingame, CA 94010
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Foothill College Authors Series
Los Altos Hill, California
T.C. BOYLE
Author: The Tortilla Curtain, Tooth and Claw, The Inner Circle
May 14 @ 3pm in Appreciation Hall
Free admission; parking is $2
For information on the Series: http://preznet.fhda.edu/fas.html
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Creative Minds Speaker Series - Daniel H. Wilson
San Jose Museum of Art
May 15, 2008
Join the San Jose Museum of Art for Creative Minds, five exciting lectures and onstage conversations that bring the greatest names in art and ideas through our doors. The series engages innovative leaders in literature, criticism, science, and the visual arts in an ongoing conversation with you, our audience, on stimulating issues in art. Chosen for their experience, creativity, insight, and fresh perspectives, these speakers will transform your appreciation and understanding of familiar and newly discovered work.
Daniel H. Wilson holds a Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and has worked at Intel Research Seattle, Northrop Grumman, the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and Microsoft Research. In January 2006 he began as a columnist for Popular Mechanics magazine. An invited speaker at Google's Author Series, Wilson's first book, How to Survive a Robot Uprising, won a Rave Award from Wired magazine. His new book, Where's My Jetpack?, is a funny tribute to the far-fetched ideas that often drive progress.
• TICKET INFO
• Tickets: $14-$18
• Info Phone: 408-271-6840
• DATES & TIMES
• Dates: May 15, 2008
• Times: 7:30pm-9pm
• VENUE INFO
• San Jose Museum of Art
• 110 South Market Street San Jose, CA 95113
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Ellen Sussman
Author Reading
San Jose Public Library System
May 21, 2008
Local author Ellen Sussman, editor of 2007 title Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave will present a talk entitled Finding Truth in Writing: Fiction or Non-Fiction. Ms. Sussman will address the way both literary forms reveal truth in different ways and will also read from her work.
• TICKET INFO
• Tickets: Free
• DATES & TIMES
• Dates: May 21, 2008
• Times: 6:30pm-8pm
• VENUE INFO
• West Valley Branch Library
• 1243 San Tomas Aquino Rd San Jose, CA 95117
• ACCESSIBILITY INFO
• Wheelchair Access
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Author Anita Amirrezvani ANITA AMIRREEZVANI
Montalvo Arts Center
May 22, 2008
Born in Tehran, Iran, Amirrezvani worked for 10 years as a Bay Area arts writer before publishing her first novel, The Blood of Flowers. Set in the 17th century, the novel pays tribute to the anonymous artisans of Iran and centers around the character of a hopeful and promising village girl who faces a series of life challenges and must make many sacrifices. In order to survive she must be resilient, self-reliant and continue to hope for a better life. The author speaks about her research in the city of Isfahan and her life as a writer.
Though free to members, reservations are required for this event. Please call the Montalvo Box Office at (408) 961.5858.
• Tickets: $10
Free to Montalvo members
• Info Phone: 408-961-5858
• Dates: May 22 - May 22, 2008
• Time: 7pm
• Montalvo Arts Center
• 15400 Montalvo Road Saratoga, CA 95070
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Michael Ondaatje - Divisadero
Kepler's Bookstore
May 25, 2008
From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time.
In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violence—of both hand and heart—that sets fire to the rest of their lives.
Divisadero takes us from the city of San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada’s casinos and eventually to the landscape of south-central France. It is here, outside a small rural village, that Anna becomes immersed in the life and the world of a writer from an earlier time—Lucien Segura. His compelling story, which has its beginnings at the turn of the century, circles around “the raw truth” of Anna’s own life, the one she’s left behind but can never truly leave. And as the narrative moves back and forth in time and place, we discover each of the characters managing to find some foothold in a present rough hewn from the past.
Breathtakingly evoked and with unforgettable characters, Divisadero is a multilayered novel about passion, loss, and the unshakable past, about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory. It is Michael Ondaatje's most intimate and beautiful novel to date.
• TICKET INFO
• Tickets: Free
• Info Phone: 650-324-4321
• DATES & TIMES
• Dates: May 25, 2008
• Times: 2pm
• VENUE INFO
• Kepler's Books
• 1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, CA 94025
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